
Narratives and their role in psychotherapy
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Arti and Poonam Gupta (Department of Psychiatry, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana)
Narrative or story provides the dominant frame for live experience, for the organization and patterning of lived experience. The term narratives may used to conceptualize the set of processes, activities or strategies in which clients and therapist engage during psychotherapy sessions in order to amplify and understand important issues, events and experiences. Narrative therapy is a form of psychotherapy using narrative. It is a method of therapy that attempts to separate the person from the problem. A problem is something that a person has, not something that a person is. It utilizes the power of people’s personal stories to discover the life purpose of the narrator. Clients are encouraged, through a respectful and cooperative relationship, to address the problems in their lives. It also works in two phases of deconstruction and reconstruction, with benefits of sifting the person through the past to uncover things that had previously remained hidden. It can be used as a mean of psychosocial intervention for many psychosocial problems, i.e., Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Alexithymia, Couple or Family problems, Anger problems in people with learning disability, Alcohol dependence, to avoid Stress and burnout in lowered performance people. Therapeutic narrative is clearly any kind of written or spoken narrative/story which promotes physical or mental healing.
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Pages:1799-1801
Arti and Poonam Gupta (Department of Psychiatry, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana)